Stingray surveillance with Thom Hartmann & BORDC’s Shahid Buttar

This Tuesday, April 21, BORDC’s Shahid Buttar joined Thom Hartmann on The Big Picture to discuss Stingray technology. Developed by the CIA and now used around the country by local police under FBI supervision, Stingrays mimic cell phone towers and conduct surveillance untethered by judicial warrants.

Explaining why the local use of Stingray surveillance is constitutionally problematic, Buttar said (at 3:16):

[A]s with automated license plate readers, or surveillance drones, or any of the other methods used by our military to spy on our nation’s enemies — when those tools start showing showing up on American streets, being used against us, there’s a problem.